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Udo_Schmitzon Is HTTPS://status.claude.com loading for you all?

No and Claude for me isn't working either and is giving me: '529 Overloaded' and API errors.

Udo_Schmitzon Various LLM Smells

https://github.com/JetBrains/JetBrainsMono/blob/master/OFL.t...

Udo_Schmitzon The German language broke my website

What? Where do you live in Germany? They are all over the place!

Udo_Schmitzon How Duolingo reignited user growth

> […]I now disrecommend Duolingo for folks wanting to learn a new language[…]

What App would you recommend now?

Udo_Schmitzon SBF Arrested by Bahamian Authorities

Well…: “SBF was the second-largest Democratic donor during the last election cycle, and he told Fong he gave about the same amount to Republicans. ”

https://fortune.com/crypto/2022/11/29/sam-bankman-fried-poli...

Udo_Schmitzon Apple bought out all of Newsweek's 1984 Election issue ad space for Mac

Here’s some material for you to look at:

https://web.archive.org/web/20120729114743/http://news.cnet.... “Apple, which ended its third quarter with $1.2 billion in cash, will use the additional $150 million to invest in its core markets of education and creative content, Anderson said.”

https://web.archive.org/web/20160821150114/http://www.roughl...

http://time.com/3781557/in-a-private-light-diana-walkers-pho... (Picture #10 in slide show)

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2010/05/apple...

“Less than 12 hours before his big announcement, nobody here knows yet about the bombshell to come. In fact, Jobs is still negotiating it here at the Castle--on a cell phone. "Hi, Bill," you hear him say in the echo chamber of the old hall. Then his voice drops, and for nearly an hour he paces the stage, running through last-minute details with Gates. All the while, he leans over his computer, paces, lies down on the stage, paces, lurks in dark corners, paces and talks, paces and talks.

This is the fateful call for the boy titans of the personal-computer revolution, meant to settle the war. At one point, talking about Apple, Jobs says, "There are a lot of good things, happily--and a lot of screwed-up things." Then, to his crew, he yells, "Have we got satellite contact with the other side?" Assured this has been taken care of, he answers a question from Gates about what to wear on the morrow ("I'm just going to wear a white shirt," he assures him), and he finally ends the conversation with a heartfelt "Thank you for your support of this company. I think the world's a better place for it." And so that's how Apple and Microsoft, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, finally seal it--on a cell-phone call.

The deal is vintage Jobs. Amelio began the process of repairing relations between the two longtime rivals. But once he was out the door at Apple, Jobs contacted Gates to try to get talks started again. Gates dispatched his CFO, Gregory Maffei, who met Jobs at his home. Jobs suggested they go for a walk. Grabbing a couple of bottles of mineral water from the fridge, the two took off for a stroll around Palo Alto. Jobs was barefoot. "It was an interesting scene," Maffei recalls. "It was a pretty radical change for the relations between the two companies." The two walked for nearly an hour, through Palo Alto's green university area, as they pounded out the details of a potential deal. Jobs, Maffei says, was "expansive and charming. He said, 'These are things that we care about and that matter.' And that let us cut down the list. We had spent a lot of time with Amelio, and they had a lot of ideas that were nonstarters. Jobs had a lot more ability. He didn't ask for 23,000 terms. He looked at the whole picture, figured about what he needed. And we figured he had the credibility to bring the Apple people around and sell the deal."”

(From: Steve’s Job: Restart Apple by Cathy Booth in Time Magazine Aug 18, 1997)

http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/13/3239977/apple-and-microsof...

The 1997 cross-license agreement between Microsoft and Apple: http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/1292505/584.pdf

Udo_Schmitzon How fast is 12th Gen Intel Core?

https://www.applegamingwiki.com/wiki/M1_perfect_games_list

Udo_Schmitzon Hispaniola's great divergence

Insightful short documentary:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WvKeYuwifc

Udo_Schmitzon Prefer the British Style of Quotation Mark Punctuation over the American

Yeah, Hacker News defaults to the Geneva font. Those quotation marks are not pretty :(

Udo_Schmitzon Prefer the British Style of Quotation Mark Punctuation over the American

You are of course right and I edited my comment accordingly.

Udo_Schmitzon Prefer the British Style of Quotation Mark Punctuation over the American

DE would be: „Zitat“. »Zitat« is also allowed. «Zitat» is mostly used in Switzerland and Liechtenstein. Note missing spaces compared to French.

(Edited after correction from user bloak below)

Udo_Schmitzon Adobe: The Psychology of User Offboarding

Website: “Use your keyboard arrows to view the story!” Me, using an iPad: “…”

Edit: their home page for me is a black void. From their about section: “80,000+ people who care about crafting meaningful experiences for their users.”

Udo_Schmitzon Berkeley Systems “After Dark” screensavers recreated in CSS

And it's flap! Flap! Flap! Now help is on the way.

Udo_Schmitzon An app for M1 Macs that plays the sound of a fan as CPU usage goes up

Oh, OK, I think you’re right there.

Udo_Schmitzon An app for M1 Macs that plays the sound of a fan as CPU usage goes up

Lots of Apple’s print ads in the 70s used the term Personal Computer: http://www.macmothership.com/gallery/MiscAds2/1977IntroApple... http://www.macmothership.com/gallery/MiscAds2/AisFor1.jpg http://www.macmothership.com/gallery/MiscAds2/ad24.jpg

Udo_Schmitzon The Futuro House: Spaceship Living on Earth (1965)

If you want to know more about Futuro I recommend this documentary:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379795/reference

It’s available on DVD with English subtitles. (No affiliation)

Udo_Schmitzon The Real Book

Didn’t know about the legal implications. A bunch of Real and Fake Books were readily available at the music library in Germany I frequented in the 80s. I’d bet they’re still available now.

Udo_Schmitzon Russian Pipeline Is Germany's Greatest Foreign Policy Embarrassment

Sure: The chairman of the project company's board of directors is Gerhard Schröder.[75] As with the first pipeline, Schröder acted as a business lobbyist, repeatedly organizing meetings between Nord Stream's managing director Matthias Warnig and Schröder's SPD colleague and Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel, as well as between Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller and Economics Minister Brigitte Zypries (SPD).[76][77]

Udo_Schmitzon The people the suburbs were built for are gone

What kind of house in Europe? I’d guess most non-apartment family homes in Europe are row houses. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraced_house Much denser than a stereotypical US suburb.

Udo_Schmitzon Parisian Accent in 1912

May I recommend https://madelen.ina.fr/ They have old tv shows that are easier to follow then contemporary series. I also enjoy to watch French dubbed US shows on Netflix that I‘m already familiar with.

Udo_Schmitzon A group of Google workers have announced plans to unionize

You are misinformed, in Germany/EU there is legal protection against age discrimination.[1] You don’t need to be a member of a union or even have any union representation at the company.

[1]https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kündigungsschutz#Kündigungssch...

Udo_Schmitzon Chrome Is Bad

- AdGuard has to run its app in the background, true, but it‘s very well behaved. - menu: View —-> ShowStatus Bar (command /)

Udo_Schmitzon An Elderly Mathematician Hacked the Lottery for $26M

I remember that one. The medium article looks like a summary.

Udo_Schmitzon Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable Mac computers

Not for computers into Germany.

Udo_Schmitzon Show HN: An iPhone app that lets you pick colors and identify PANTONE colors

RAL and HKS are German color systems, the first dating back to the 1920s and the latter to the 1960s.

Edit: love the app!

Udo_Schmitzon California Covid-19 traffic report finds silver lining

>your risk of dying from a COVID infection is 0.37% per the latest study from Germany

1.: Study is not complete yet and is of 500 people in the hardest hit area in Germany[1]

2.: Why do you compare deadly car accidents in the US with COVID-19 mortality rate in Germany?

3.: COVID-19 Mortality rate in the US is 5.3%[2]

[1] https://www.tagesschau.de/regional/nordrheinwestfalen/corona...

[2] https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality

Udo_Schmitzon Nasty macOS flaw is bricking MacBooks: Don't install this update

Steve picked the wrong guy. Again.

Udo_Schmitzon Apple Eyes 2022 Release for AR Headset, 2023 for Glasses

„Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.“ Steve Jobs

https://www.wired.com/1996/02/jobs-2/

Udo_Schmitzon Hyphenation in CSS

> Simple, add more than one lang="" attribute. You can add them to _any_ HTML tag.

Thanks! Very helpful and thoroughly referenced :)

Udo_Schmitzon Hyphenation in CSS

>The language of a webpage should be set using the HTML lang attribute: <html lang="en">

And if I want to have more than one language on the same webpage?